What is the acceptable signal power of an AP

[Hans Blink]

Hi,

We are installing many AP on my office. I must write a rules that establish the minimum signal required before installing a second AP or a repeater in the same location.  Someone can tell me what is the minimum signal power is acceptable before insatlling another AP or repeater ?

Thank you in advance

[fbarboza · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Remember that when we are deploying a wireless setup we should always do a site survey to determine the amount of APs you need, power levels to use on each AP, where to locate each AP so that you can get the required mbps per client on each AP since as you know wireless is half duplex and also a shared medium.

Also depending on how god the signal quality is too each client they will get a required data rate.

There would not be a specific number since this will all depend on the amount of clients you need to support on the site and bandwidth per client.

Here is the link for the FAQ of a site survey.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk722/tk809/technologies_q_and_a_item09186a00805e9a96.shtml